[AMS-announce] CFP: AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting, March 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2007 Annual Meeting,
South-Central Chapter, American Musicological Society
Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2006

The South Central Chapter of the American Musicological Society 
(AMS-SC) is pleased to announce its 2007 Annual Meeting in Athens, 
Georgia, to be held jointly with Music Theory Southeast (MTSE) and 
the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter 
(SEMSEC) on Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 17, hosted by the Hugh 
Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia.

Proposals for presentations, special sessions, papers with a 
performance component, and panel discussions are solicited on any 
topic related to historical musicology. Presentations will be limited 
to twenty minutes. The Program Committees encourages proposals that 
address traditional music of the South and independent/progressive rock.

Submissions should include the following:

1. An abstract with a maximum limit of 250 words, suitable for 
publication. Abstracts should be concise but thorough, and should 
indicate clearly the scope of research, methods, and conclusions. 
They should also appear in a format suitable for direct publication 
in the abstract booklet. Include title, centered at the top of the 
page and, at bottom right, author's name and institutional 
affiliation or place of residence. A letter from an adviser or other 
faculty member verifying student status should accompany each 
abstract submitted by a student. Students whose abstracts are 
selected by the Program committee will be eligible to compete in the 
Rey M. Longyear Student Paper Competition. This award, given in 
memory of Professor Longyear, will be awarded at the chapter meeting.

2. A cover letter providing the title of the proposal, author's name, 
address, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, and 
any necessary AV equipment.

Submission Instructions

Electronic submission: Email attachments in Microsoft Word format are 
preferred. Please be sure to send abstract and cover letter as two 
separate files. All submissions via email should be sent no later 
than midnight, December 1, 2006. Email proposals to Ron.Pen at uky.edu

Surface Mail Submission: All submissions by surface mail should be 
postmarked by Friday, December 1, 2006. Please submit six copies of 
both abstract and cover letter. Send mail to:

Ron Pen, Program Chair
South-Central Chapter, AMS
School of Music
105 Fine Arts Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0022

We look forward to welcoming you to the "Mega Regional Conference" 
representing the complementary disciplines of theory, 
ethnomusicology, and musicology on March 16-17, 2007 in Athens, Georgia.

Cordially,

Ron Pen,
Chapter Vice-President and Program Chair


Lawrence Schenbeck
Chapter Secretary

Associate Professor of Music History
Spelman College, Atlanta
lschenbeck at numail.org